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British North America East Coast Newfoundland : St. John's Harbour

by: Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, issuing body

Publication date: 1864
Topics: Newfoundland and Labrador -- Navigation -- Maps., Nautical charts -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador., Canada -- Maps., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Bayfield Project, Nautical charts -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador, Nautical charts, Newfoundland and Labrador -- Navigation -- Maps, Canada -- Maps, Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador
Publisher: London : Published at the Admiralty
Collection: mcgilluniversity; mcgilluniversityrarebooks; toronto
Contributor: McGill University Library
Language: English
Item Size: 83.4M

1 map ; 93 x 59 cm folded to 50 x 66 cm

"Engraved from the original drawings under the direction of Capt. G. A. Belford R.N. by J & C Walker."

"Published at the Admiralty, Jany. 1st 1864

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings in fathoms

Mounted on linen

Includes one coastal profile of St. John's Harbour

Showing roads, public buildings, naval yards, warfs

Lighthouses shown in red

"Sold by J. D. Potter, Agent for the sale of the Admiralty Charts, 31 Poultry & 11 King St. Tower Hill."

Early Canadian nautical maps were referred to as "Bayfield charts" in honour of Henry Wolsey Bayfield who began in the early 1800s charting the waterways of Canada

Addeddate: 2019-04-04 21:28:20
Associated-names: Orlebar, J., 1810-1891, surveyor; Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, 1795-1885; Potter, J. D. (John Dennett), active 1830-1892, bookseller; J. & C. Walker (Firm), engraver; Great Britain. Admiralty
Identifier: McGillLibrary-rbsc_map_bayfield-022-18902
Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t3327hj3q
Note: "Engraved from the original drawings under the direction of Capt. G. A. Belford R.N. by J & C Walker."
"Published at the Admiralty, Jany. 1st 1864.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings in fathoms.
Mounted on linen.
Includes one coastal profile of St. John's Harbour.
Showing roads, public buildings, naval yards, warfs.
Lighthouses shown in red.
"Sold by J. D. Potter, Agent for the sale of the Admiralty Charts, 31 Poultry & 11 King St. Tower Hill."
Early Canadian nautical maps were referred to as "Bayfield charts" in honour of Henry Wolsey Bayfield who began in the early 1800s charting the waterways of Canada.
Copy in McGill Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections, Map Collection: Numbered 22 on verso of map.
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